Utility Planet is the official blog for the column of the same name in The Spectrum Monitor. It replaces Utility World in the discontinued Monitoring Times magazine. Utilities are all VLF/LF/MF/HF (and sometimes low-band VHF) radio communications except broadcasting, CB, and non-emergency amateur. If you understood the last sentence, you know enough to read this blog.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

NOT the Longest EAM Ever

The longest EAM ever, according to people who would know, is much longer. It is at least 515 characters. This one was "only" 270.

While it is plausible that a fair number of US military assets required new instructions regarding the security of US diplomatic personnel overseas, any such connection would be sheer speculation. There is no evidence connecting these special multi-block EAMs with anything extraordinary at all. We'll probably never know.